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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Consider ChatGPT as the most intelligent, knowledgeable, expert assistant you’ve ever had. Provide enough context in a well-structured manner to ensure they can complete the task you ask of them. Remember, the first version of the policy doesn’t have to be perfect; initiating this conversation is key.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. What Is Growth?

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. With the board and staff collaborating and bringing their lived experiences and knowledge together, the organization can be more impactful in its work.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

As such, effective approaches to measurement and learning reflect a multiplicity of stakeholders. They’re reducing reporting requirements, using open-ended questions rather than a highly structured report template, and engaging in discovery and learning with the people and the organizations that provide the data.

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Social Media Policy Best Practices: Trust Is Cheaper Than Control

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What’s In A Social Media Policy? The tone and philosophy in a social media policy depends on the risk appetite of the organization. As this was explained in the discussion on Facebook , organizations with a stronger risk appetite/tolerance for their activities might have a more “permissive&# social media policy.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration. Participatory evaluation is based on the premise that everyone has knowledge; everyone has biases; and the people closest to an issue know the most about it. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.